Chapter 28 3. Record of the butcher who slipped through the net

"Yangtze Evening News" published an article "Tracking the Nanjing Massacre Witnesses Across the Sea" written by Sha Zhou on November 11, 1995, which revealed that the Japanese army still had a saber that killed 107 people during the Nanjing Battle. In 1995, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Nanjing TV Station launched a masterpiece-"Nanjing Massacre" 8-episode series of documentaries.When the film crew came to Taiwan to shoot materials, they saw a saber engraved with the words "killed 107 people in the Battle of Nanjing" at the exhibition of the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War held by the "Historical and Political Bureau" Military History Museum in Taichung. , the handwriting is clearly visible.This was brought to Taiwan by Wei Bingwen, former deputy commander of the Sixteenth Army of the Kuomintang.After Wei Bingwen's death, his family donated the knife to Taiwan's "Ministry of National Defense" Party History Exhibition Hall.

When the camera was aimed at this crime, the reporter's mind was strongly shocked. The small words "Killed 107 people in the Battle of Nanjing" jumped and zoomed in front of the camera, as if they were the eyes of the deceased who refused to turn their eyes; The mottled rust on the saber moves slowly in front of the camera, as if the blood of the wronged soul is flowing.Who is the owner of this saber?Of course it wasn't Junkichi Tanaka, nor Toshiaki Mukai and Iwa Noda, but another murderous devil with a heinous crime!Half a century has passed, and the blood-ridden executioner is still at large!

Nanjing TV reporter Wu Jianning was shocked, but deeply felt that it was his unshirkable responsibility to track down the owner of the saber and find the murderer who is at large.During his stay in Taiwan, he tried everything possible to find the family members of General Wei Bingwen, but unfortunately, due to the short time, he has not been found. After returning to Nanjing, Wu Jianning continued his search, and finally got an important clue from Mr. Gao Zu, the chairman of the "Nanjing Massacre" Research Association and professor of the History Department of Nanjing University: Mr. Yu Hongcheng, who first seized the saber, is now in Sichuan. Dazhu County Overseas Chinese Federation work.Wu Jianning immediately called Sichuan Dazhu, and after a lot of trouble, he finally found Mr. Yu Hongcheng.Mr. Yu replied with a long letter, recalling the process of confiscating the saber.

After Japan announced its unconditional surrender in 1945, Yu Hongcheng, as the supply battalion commander of the 16th Army, was ordered to go to Ding County, Hebei to accept the troops of a certain Japanese army.He still clearly remembers that it was a chubby and elegant captain who graduated from the Imperial University of Japan and handed over 10 sabers on behalf of the Japanese side, including this saber engraved with the words "killed 107 people in the Battle of Nanjing".At that time, he felt that this saber had killed so many people, it was too unlucky, so he handed it over to the military headquarters together with the other 4 sabers, so this saber was in the hands of Deputy Army Commander Wei Bingwen.

It's a pity that no one realized at the time that this was ironclad evidence of the Japanese invaders' crime of brutally massacring the Chinese people, so the bloody and indebted executioner was not tracked down in time. From the many photos taken after the Japanese army captured Nanjing to show off the might of the imperial army, it is not difficult to find photos of "killing contests".There is a picture like this: after three Japanese soldiers crazily carried out a game of beheading the Chinese, they sat together on the stone steps and wiped the blood from their knives.Sitting in the front is a Japanese military officer. Due to the continuous beheading, he was so hot that he took off his military uniform and only wore a white shirt. He couldn't even wear a hat anymore. He held a knife in his right hand and was wiping the blood on the knife with his left hand. , with his face tilted to the right, his eyes were proudly staring at the precious sword in his hand, as if feeling infinite glory for the killing just now!The Japanese soldier sitting in the front right of the photo is holding a knife in his left hand and wiping the blood on the knife with his right hand. Because of killing too many people, he is so hot that he opened his clothes in this cold winter.Wiping the blood on the knife, the executioner was immersed in extremely excited and happy memories!A Japanese soldier sat behind the stone steps, wearing a watch looted from the victim in his left hand, wiping the blood from the knife and examining his saber carefully.Due to the continuous beheadings, the saber was probably damaged, and he seemed to be sighing in his heart: The Japanese saber still needs to be improved!

It's a pity that the names of the three beasts are not left on this photo, and there is no text explaining their "brilliant achievements". As a result, these three demons became the fish that slipped through the net when the sword of justice punished evil after the war.